One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give the charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
Category: Friday Quote
Friday Quote – Robert Higgs
When presented with a choice between two evils, do not choose the lesser. Choose the exit.
Friday Quote – H.L. Mencken
I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist… He plans to be both an artist and a moralist – a master of lovely words and merchant of sound ideas. He ends, commonly, as the most depressing jackass of his community – that is, if his career goes on to what is called a success.
Friday Quote – Milton Friedman
Doing good with other people’s money has two basic flaws. In the first place, you never spend anybody else’s money as carefully as you spend your own. So a large fraction of that money is inevitably wasted. In the second place, and equally important, you cannot do good with other people’s money unless you first get the money away from them. So that force – sending a policeman to take the money from somebody’s pocket – is fundamentally at the basis of the philosophy of the welfare state.
Friday Quote – Barry Eisler
The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you’re most at risk.
Friday Quote – Nipsey Hussle
If you look at the people in your circle and don’t get inspired, then you don’t have a circle. You have a cage.
Friday Quote – Fred Rogers
Love doesn’t mean a state of perfect caring. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now – and to go on caring through the joyful times and through the times that may bring us pain.
Friday Quote – Richard Branson
Train people well enough that they can leave. Treat them well enough so they don’t want to.
Friday Quote- Ryan Clecker
Calling for more gun control is an admission that gun control doesn’t work.
Friday Quote – Matt McCaffrey
I doubt most people plaything the Powerball seriously believe they’ll win. Instead, people treat a ticket as the price of daydreaming about what they’d do with an enormous pile of cash. You can’t win without playing, so people pay a small amount as a way to justify spending their scarce time imagining their own Scrooge McDuck scenarios. For these people, the benefit of the ticket is greater than its cost.